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# Optical Network Development Engineer, NFE

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States
- **Salary:** $114,100.0 - $160,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Bash Shell, Unix, C++ (Programming Language), Network Analysis, Wavelength-Division Multiplexing, Data Centers, Data Transmissions, Data Integrity, Perl (Programming Language), Python (Programming Language), Network Security, Software Engineering, Systems Integration, Scripting, AWS Data Analytics
- **Published:** September 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=5013930b2fa77254

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree
 * Knowledge of network analysis fundamentals and robust troubleshooting
 * 1+ years of work experience on optical communication systems, networking planning and optimization.
 * 1+ years of work experience on operating and maintaining optical (DWDM) networks
 * 1+ years of professional development experience with Python or a similar scripting language for automation scripting., * Experience with Unix and scripting in Perl, shell, C or C++
 * Experience working with customers to diagnose a problem and work towards resolution
 * Experience working in a fast-paced, rapidly changing operations environment
 * Thorough understanding of deploying and operating high capacity DWDM and Optical network systems
 * Good automation scripting using Python, Bash, Shell and/or Perl experience

## Description

Optical Network Development Engineers perform high quality network and/or systems operations, deployments, scaling, technology refresh, sustaining engineering, best practices application, optimization, internal/external customer interactions, and produce appropriate technical documentation.

 * Collaborate with vendors/manufacturers to evaluate new hardware and software features. Create implementations plans for incorporating them into the network.
 * Automate optical test plans and qualify optical modules.
 * Collaborate with vendors/manufactures in defining and developing test plans for Optical Modules.
 * Create processes that help operate and build our DWDM network. Drive scaling current DWDM designs to meet the demand of our customers.
 * Drive operational excellence projects to deliver improvements in our DWDM network quality and reliability.

A day in the life
Engineers in the InterDC Optical services team have a wide range of responsibilities. In terms of product development and delivery, it covers all activities related to hardware and software development, cross-platforms and software integration, and transition to production for both inhouse commodity and OEM optical platforms. From the lifecycle support perspective, includes day to day operations on-call, sustaining engineering, operational load automation and reduction, product and network security, network data integrity and authoritativeness, availability assurance (SRLG monitoring) and improvement (OLP, RFTS) and fiber infrastructure and vendor performance management.

Our engineers not only make decisions on day-to-day work but they also own the long-term strategic view, they build strong partnership with customers to understand their immediate and future needs, their use cases and the things that we/they are not even thinking about so we make sure our solutions will fit into their needs. They bring perspective and context to influence the way we make technology and design choices, how we develop and deliver products that are right sized, fungible and future proof at the optimum cost per bit. They understand the business impact of their recommendations and show good judgment in decision making as we consider technical trade-offs between the immediate short-term technology solutions, operational needs and the long-term business needs.

The InterDC Optical Services team is responsible for the development, delivery and lifecycle support of the optical products used to interconnect AWS Data Centers and PoPs (Point of presence), ensuring diversity of supply and continually lowering data transfer cost for customers. This product portfolio serves a broad customer base and is primarily used to transport Core (EC2 & Prod) and Border (Internet) traffic in and across all but a few AWS commercial and ADC regions globally. Our current network size is >10Pbps of inter data center traffic over >30k devices worldwide and our team is structured to create and evolve these products and solutions while providing highly available, secure and scalable transport for multiple customer fabrics globally.